That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball.
I was unvoluntarily volunteered last night to be an usher at church. I am not being exactly fair in that statement. I was asked and I hesitantly agreed to passing the plate and holding a tray of communion glasses. Typically, I am one of those persons who like to dissappear during service and not do anything that may draw attention, especially something like being an usher or even worse a lector. After communion was over, I grabbed my purse and headed out regardless of the scene, because I couldn't stand it anymore. Besides, my ride to church and play (Jean) was going to be leaving me if I didn't boogie. I can't help but feel that sometimes the church is secretly trying to suck me in to more layperson worship leader related activities. YIPE! I left in such a hurry that I didn't even have a chance to ask Arlene for a recipe for pumpkin bars. :(
I don't believe that I ever mentioned Arlene before, but she's a lady at my church that I have all the respect for. I wish when I get to be pushing 75 years old that I can be able to rightfully wear a mini-skirt, which she can and does often. I am defining a mini-skirt, in this case, as a skirt with the hem maybe a couple of inches above the knee. Anyway, I am always telling her that she's automatically hired as one of my back-up dancers when I go out on tour. The long story made short here is she's beyond retirement age, is very active, employed as an Registered Dietician, walks an 18 hole golf game, still looks early 60ish and has one great pair of legs. Oh, and she rocks out in her little red sports car! I NEED her recipe for pumpkin bars. It's a simple as that. The End.
"Singing in the Rain" was superb. However, I do have only one complaint. Since the last time I volunteered as a set changer at the theater, they have since wired the players with little tiny mics, which was a distraction. I kept thinking those mics were q-tips behind their ears. The audience could hear every time a mic hit something like an article of clothing or even the side of their head by way of a big "thud". That was bad. There was a little feedback happening too. I don't quite undertand the decision regarding their use of mics there. The Strauss is small, much smaller than Brown Auditorium or Jack Howard Theatre. I would think that being wired for a perfmormance at the Jack Howard would be appropiate since it is the largest theatre space in town with over 2,200 seats. The Strauss may seat 300-400, I'm guessing. Anyway, the players should have been able to phyically project their voices using their diaphragms. My high school drama teacher would have really fussed about that. In fact, I should probably get in touch with her. It's a real shame that she doesn't bring an inprov team to compete in DI. Heck, she might not even know that such a competition exists.
I don't believe that I ever mentioned Arlene before, but she's a lady at my church that I have all the respect for. I wish when I get to be pushing 75 years old that I can be able to rightfully wear a mini-skirt, which she can and does often. I am defining a mini-skirt, in this case, as a skirt with the hem maybe a couple of inches above the knee. Anyway, I am always telling her that she's automatically hired as one of my back-up dancers when I go out on tour. The long story made short here is she's beyond retirement age, is very active, employed as an Registered Dietician, walks an 18 hole golf game, still looks early 60ish and has one great pair of legs. Oh, and she rocks out in her little red sports car! I NEED her recipe for pumpkin bars. It's a simple as that. The End.
"Singing in the Rain" was superb. However, I do have only one complaint. Since the last time I volunteered as a set changer at the theater, they have since wired the players with little tiny mics, which was a distraction. I kept thinking those mics were q-tips behind their ears. The audience could hear every time a mic hit something like an article of clothing or even the side of their head by way of a big "thud". That was bad. There was a little feedback happening too. I don't quite undertand the decision regarding their use of mics there. The Strauss is small, much smaller than Brown Auditorium or Jack Howard Theatre. I would think that being wired for a perfmormance at the Jack Howard would be appropiate since it is the largest theatre space in town with over 2,200 seats. The Strauss may seat 300-400, I'm guessing. Anyway, the players should have been able to phyically project their voices using their diaphragms. My high school drama teacher would have really fussed about that. In fact, I should probably get in touch with her. It's a real shame that she doesn't bring an inprov team to compete in DI. Heck, she might not even know that such a competition exists.
posted by Nikki | 8:16 AM
2 Comments:
Oh no, blog spam!!
I don't like it when they put mikes on the actors either; it is very distracting and generally sounds awful.
It probably would not have been so bad if it wasn't a musical. The actors were having to do so much dancing and moving around, so there was alot of thud. Thank god only the leads wore them.
Why yes, I see that ugly blog spam. grrr.
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